What's the worst thing to happen to you or a loved one at a wedding?

Question

What's the worst thing you've ever seen/known a bride and or groom, or anyone in the wedding party do? What's the worst thing the guests have ever done?

What's the tackiest wedding you've ever been to?

The tackiest for me was when my friend had her wedding at a bowling ally, dressed in what made her look like a 2 cent street walker, her man was dressed in jeans full of holes and a shirt he'd worn for at least a week and smelled. The "cake" was day old donuts stacked together, the guy who married them was the bowling ally bartender and the punch was ice cold grape koolaide spiked with warm beer. The rings cost $10 for both of them, bought at a pawn shop. She was 9 months along, and ready to pop. Baby wasn't even his, but stupid him put his name on the birth certificate. 3 years later, they are still married though, with another baby on the way, living it up in a trailor park.

Answer 1

My cousin attended a wedding where there was a shooting.  The groom was severely injured, the best man died and a number of wedding guests were hospitalized.  The father of the bride had a stroke as a result of being shot in the head, but he apparently has recovered fairly well since I saw him shopping at Sears recently.  The incident was due to a gang issue and according to the police, the intended victim wasn't even in attendance! [I knew the father of the bride, but not the bride and groom]

Tackiest wedding I have been to wasn't nearly as tacky as the one you describe.  Invitations said that the couple preferred money because they already had everything (most people just gave them a card - they figured, they already had everything).  I personally feel that the robo-bridesmaid thing is tacky, but you know...it seems tacky is now popular. Who would have thought? Another couple, who were rebuilding their home damaged by weather,  put in the invitation that they wanted stuff from Home Depot and that wedding presents should be brought to the reception.  It was actually quite funny, because they opened their gifts there and had things like faucets and windows and yes, even a kitchen sink (stainless steel). Tacky yes, great fun, yes.  They were very grateful however. I received a thank you a few weeks later and then about 7 months later, another thank you with a photo of the shower faucet I bought them installed.

I do have to comment. I don't think it's nice to denigrate those who live in trailer parks.   Lots of perfectly normal people live in them.

Answer 2

I laughed when I read Garnet's answer because my "friend" wrote that to my husband and I on our guest matte frame where our wedding picture is going to go in our home.  It was in lieu of a traditional guest book...we wanted a nice matte around our wedding picture with signatures and well-wishes from our guests.  I couldn't believe when I read that lovely well-wish the next morning.....it was tacky and now we have to live with it hanging in our home for people to see and read.  Awful!

Answer 3

The tackiest wedding I went to was my ex's cousin. The theme was "ribbons in the sky" some stupid horrible song that was played every 5 minutes. The ceremony was two hours late in the smallest church in toronto on the hottest day of the year (41 with humidex) and they were "instructed" not to turn the ac on because the bride likes it hot. The ceremony was long, overdone, and "ribbons in the sky" played 5 times through the ceremony on repeat! You couldn't hear anything at all during the ceremony except the bride tell her daughter to "shut the h**l up before I smack you one"

Because the ceremony was 2 hours late the reception was three hours late!! We all waited at the hall while the bride had her makeup redone from scratch for the pictures. When they finally did show up at 7:45pm (was supposed to be at 5) we had to wait while they introduced the wedding party one at a time, to "ribbons in the sky".

Then speeches which were very long and drawn out and so full of inside jokes that they stopped making sense. Then the first dance to....you guessed it "ribbons in the sky".  Then a "break" so the bride could go for a smoke but no guests were to leave the room, a lady was directed to sit her kid down and wait to use the bathroom until the bride came back.

THEN the food was served, buffet style chicken and rice and all the guests had to sit and wait while th entire wedding party was served and ATE their first plate, so we got to sit and watch them eat and listen to 30 kids screamng and crying from hunger and heat and boredom. THEN we could start to line up for food table by table.

The dj was so bad that not one single person danced (even though the dancing started at 10:30pm) and this was a jamaican/guyanese wedding........they demanded money not gifts, and no desert because the bride decided last minute that she wanted to save her wedding cake. Not sure what she planned to do with it exactly.  

They handed out the cheapest *** vinniger tasting wine as favours and not even a thank you card after the fact. The best part was her sister holding her hand out for the card I bought before she handed me the nasty wine!!!!!

I also saw the maid of honour going through the cards people put down and counting the money inside them IN FRONT OF PEOPLE!!!!!!!!

I'll never forget it!! As far as weddings go I have been to worse but I don't even think she noticed her third hubby was even there that day! Oh yes...THIRD WEDDING!!

Answer 4

The tackiest wedding I ever attended had a cash bar, a dollar dance, and an invitation that asked for money, no gifts.

Answer 5

Tackiest thing to show up with uninvited guest and make a scene! Yep I can say that is the worse. We had it happen and I couldn't believe it!

Tackiest wedding been to oh man make me laugh now but felt bad at the time for her. He asked her out in walmart, he purposed to her in walmart (a month later).  The wedding was held in his parents dirt back yard. The colors were baby pink and baby blue, The center pieces were glass bowls with pink rocks in them and goldfish. The guys wore tuxes with addidas, cowboy hats and sunglasses. The girls wore a black dress of choice......I have never seen so much skin in my life with sparkles on them. Had a bouncer for the kids and 2 kegs of beer, and chips ,dip, and Juan pollo chicken, with there sides. Yep really classy.

Answer 6

The worst possible thing to happen...death at the altar or at some point during wedding ceremony/festivities.

Other worsts:

when bride or groom gets completely blitzed to the point of blacking out & not remembering the wedding...as for the first night of wedded bliss, someone definitely lost out:(

when bride or groom treats the other abominably

when uninvited guests arrive

when drunk uninvited guests arrive

when guests get completely blitzed

when a guest objects to the marriage when the officiating party reaches that portion of the wedding ceremony

tackiest thing a guest has done...actually the best man (groom's brother) announced his engagement during the wedding reception....talk about an ego the size of the universe stealing the limelight...the guy still had the gall to make the event about him, him, him

never actually been to a tacky wedding although have heard of plenty

Answer 7

the worst thing i've ever heard, my wedding coordinator told me she had to do a wedding where the mother of the groom died the morning of the wedding due to an anurism (sp?).

I thought that was very tragic.

Answer 8

Well, I can say the tackiest toast to a bridal couple I ever heard (and I will not name names to protect the innocent) was........'To the bride & groom, may all the  ups and downs in their marriage be in the bedroom'

Wow.....lol